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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
ETFs Higher With Consumers Mood	The slowing of commodity prices eased cost pressures on households, companies and helped the markets and exchange traded funds (ETFs). According to the Reuters/University of Michigan survey, consumers’ sentiment improved slightly in August. Timothy R. Homan and Courtney Schlisserman of Bloomberg report that in the last month, gasoline is down 6%, copper is down 14% and corn 26%. These lower prices helped diminish some of the threat to the economy. But consumers may not be rea...	August 15, 2008
Most Overbought and Oversold ETFs	Below we highlight the 25 most overbought and oversold US ETFs based on their 50-day moving averages from our list of nearly 800 names. Currently, the biotech ETF (BBH) is the furthest above its 50-day at nearly 18%, followed by Turkey (TUR), the Ultrashort Oil&Gas ETF (DUG) and XBI. On the oversold side, natural gas (UNG) is trading the furthest below its 50-day at -24%, followed by more energy related ETFs....	July 31, 2008
Most Overbought and Oversold ETFs	Below we highlight the 25 most overbought and oversold US ETFs based on their 50-day moving averages from our list of nearly 800 names. Currently, the biotech ETF (BBH) is the furthest above its 50-day at nearly 18%, followed by Turkey (TUR), the Ultrashort Oil&Gas ETF (DUG) and XBI. On the oversold side, natural gas (UNG) is trading the furthest... ...	July 31, 2008
How To Weather The Economic Storms With ETFs	It’s been a challenge in the markets and exchange traded fund (ETF) realm lately, to put it mildly. Things have picked up some in recent days, but as today illustrates: we’re not out of the woods yet. Have you got some kind of plan? Glen Rogers for seeking Alpha gives us five of his ideas, and we add in some of our own thoughts, too: Raise cash: Reduce or sell some of your biggest gainers and losing stocks that are not going to rebound any time soon. Get out of any positions that h...	July 24, 2008
Anomalous Behavior of the ProShares UltraShort Oil and Gas ETF	This is a revised article, correcting inaccuracies in an earlier version (removed), for which I apologize. During the past several months I have been trading ProShares UltraShort Oil and Gas (DUG). I have observed some interesting anomalies. First, there have been periods where the price of oil has gone up, yet DUG -- the double inverse tracker of a collection of oil and gas exploration companies -- has gone up too; and vice versa. In other words, the oil and gas stock prices tracked ...	July 24, 2008
Anomalous Behavior of Proshares UltraShort Oil and Gas ETF	During the past several months I have been trading Proshares Ultrashot Oil and Gas ETF (DUG). I have observed some remarkable anomalies.First, there have been periods where the price of oil has gone up, yet DUG, which is supposed to be the double inverse of oil, has has not gone down, or has even gone up; and vice versa. One possible reason is that DUG at those levels (high 20s) was down so far, due to oil's high price, that it had perhaps entered a non-linear portion of its price range, and the...	July 22, 2008
Short Oil as a Long Investment	There is an increasing number of discussions and recommendations about being short or long oil. A number of innovative ETF vehicles have been springing up to provide ways of playing oil long or short, even leveraged in either direction. At the same time the usual suspects are out there encouraging individuals to try their hand in the futures market. To be up-front, we are long (DUG) which is a leveraged short on a number of oil and gas related stocks. A fair number of people have com...	July 21, 2008
ETF Pick of the Week: ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas	Last Friday’s pick, The New Ireland Fund (IRL), is up 6.5% in less than one week. Here's my ETF pick for this week:Pro Shares UltraShort Oil & Gas ETF (DUG)...	July 19, 2008
Still Diggin’ DUG: Oil Sector Fundamentals Are Faltering	For the past several weeks, we have been adding to our position of UltraShort Oil & Gas ProShares (DUG) as we believe that the underling fundamentals for the Oil Sector are faltering. The fact that the price for oil is rising and DUG is rising continues to show that the thesis is solid. Here are some interesting points from economy.com: Peak Oil, or Oil at a Peak?...	July 14, 2008
Increasing Hedges in Energy and Basic Materials	Taking Ultrashort Basic Materials (SMN) up to 4.1% of fund Taking Ultrashort Oil - Gas (DUG) up to 4.3% of fund The China news might finally be the catalyst to break the trend - we'll see. This is a market (energy) trading more on emotion and momentum, rather than the underlying fundamentals at this stage of the move in my opinion. And when 1 commodity sells off the hedge funds sell off everything no matter the fundamentals. So I'll just increase these insurance policies (hedges)....	June 20, 2008

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